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1. japanese

   基: Counting Big, Stable Things Use this to count all the Moai statues your neighbor set up on their front lawn

2. japanese

   発: Counting Shots, Hits, Punches, and More POW! You're gonna learn this counter in 1発!

3. japanese

   New Japanese Learning Resources: April 2019 This month's best tools to help you to learn Japanese

4. japanese

   カップ: Counting Cups and Cup-units You can finally count your ever-growing collection of rare Cup Noodle

5. japanese

   New Japanese Learning Resources: March 2019 This month's best tools to help you to learn Japanese

6. japanese

   Senpai: The Japanese Word You Look Up To We can help you “notice” how to use this word better

7. japanese

   The Meaning of Sensei: More Than Just "Teacher" Impress your judo teacher Sensei Jeff by using 先生 in all the right ways

8. japanese

   New Japanese Learning Resources: February 2019 This month's best tools to help you to learn Japanese

9. japanese

   Japanese First-Person Pronouns: わたし, ぼく, おれ, and a Whole Lot More Get yourself out of that 私 rut.

10. japanese

    New Japanese Learning Resources: January 2019 This month's best tools to help you to learn Japanese

11. travel

    Fūtendō Cave at Iwatoyama Kanzeonji The cave and temple complex filled with statues (seriously, they're all over)

12. travel

    Million Dollar Café: The Karaoke, Free Food, Paintings-Everywhere Bar When you've got nowhere to go but up, you paint the hell out of your restaurant

13. travel

    mAAch ecute: Akihabara's Best-Kept, Non-otaku Secret A retired Taishō period train station reborn into an upscale shopping paradise

14. travel

    iioffice Ueno: The Tokyo Coworking Space That's Really いい For people sick of Shibuya and Shinjuku

15. travel

    Bar Lupin: Literary Greatness and Old-fashioned Cocktails The most celebrated Japanese artists of the twentieth century got drunk here (and you should, too)

16. travel

    La Rochelle: A Restaurant by Hiroyuki Sakai, Iron Chef French Does Sakai Hiroyuki's restaurant cuisine reign supreme?

17. travel

    Szechuan Restaurant Chin: A Restaurant by Chen Kenichi, Iron Chef Chinese Does Chin Kenichi's restaurant cuisine reign supreme?

18. travel

    Kaishoku Michiba: A Restaurant by Rokusaburo Michiba, Iron Chef Japanese Does Michiba Rokusaburō's restaurant cuisine reign supreme?

19. japanese

    月: Counting Months When this counter hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's 愛

20. japanese

    年: Counting Years and Planetary Orbits If you're an １年生 in understanding this counter... then keep reading